LINDA WEINTRAUB
28 Olsen Road, Rhinebeck, NY 1257
845 758-9289
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RECENT BOOKS:

Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society. Bookorea, 2008. Korean edition 

Du sacré dans l'art actuel? Klincksiecke, 2008. Ed. Richard Conte and Marion Laval-Jeantet. Linda Weintraub, "TransGenèse : nouvelles origines"

Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology, Artnow Publications, New York

Volume 1. Eco-Centric Topics: Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art, 2006

Volume 2. Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art, 2007

Volume 3. EnvironMentalities: Twenty-Two Approaches to Eco-Art, 2007

Volume 4. Minimizing Art's Footprint/Maximizing Art's Mark: Foundations of Eco-Art, forthcoming 

Enviro-Tyro: An Academic Environmental Art Forum, 2006

In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art, 2003. Co-published by D.A.P. New York

Making Contemporary Art, 2003. Thames & Hudson, UK.

In the Making: User’s Manual: Creative Options for Contemporary Art History Classes and Studio Art Classes, 2003. DAP

In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art DVD, 2003. DAP

Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning In Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s, Art Insights. Publication, 1996. Introduction, Arthur Danto. Conclusion, Thomas McEvilley. 10th printing 2006.

ANIMAL. ANIMA. ANIMUS. Co-author/edit: Marketa Sepala. Touring exhibition and book sponsored by the Pori Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland, Arnhein Museum, Holland, Winnapeg Art Museum, Canada, P.S. 1, New York, 1998-1999.

Painted Bodies of the Americas, Harry N. Abrams Publisher, 1999. Co-Author and Editor

CURRENT CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Demo Eco M.O. (Demonstrations of Ecological Modes of Operation in Art) NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2008

Thirty Below: Keeping Warm the Eco Way. Hot - Ecological. Warm - Functional. Cool - Fashionable. Edgewood College, Wisconsin, 2008

Where Lies Henry Hudson? Architects Interpret a Historic Journey. Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen, Woodstock, NY, 2009

CURRENT DESIGN PROJECT

Ramapo Eco Park - Design and construction of an eco-park on a 400 acre camp campus in Rhinebeck, NY

RECENT TEACHING POSITION
Henry Luce Professor of Emerging Arts: Oberlin College, 2000 - 2003

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1960-1961
Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 1961-1964

Master of Fine Arts:
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 1964-1965 and 1968-1970.
Thesis: The Art of Transcendent Connections: A Study of Integration of Art and the Non-Judeo/Christian Religious Movements in the 1960s

MUSEUM ADMINISTRATIVE AND CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Director, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1982-1992
Director, Philip Johnson Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg, Allentown, PA, 1979-1982

CURRENT POSITION
Artnow Publications: Founder and Editor

Art|Sci Center, UCLA Advisory Board

CURRENT BOOK PROJECTS
Vvant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. 4th book in series entitled "The Greening of Art Pedagogy"

Good. Better, Best: Art Appreciation from a Global Perspective

Creating Creativity

LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, CRITIQUES

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Maryland,

Vanderbilt University

Keene College

Goucher College

Northern Illinois University

Wharton School of Business

Penn State University

Arizona State University

University of Kansas,

Washburn University

Green Mountain College

Cedar Crest Cp;;ege

Dowling College

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
University of Chicago, Chicago
Kansas Art Institute, Kansas City
Maryland Institute of Art and Design, Baltimore, Maryland
Columbia College, Chicago
ArtCultureNature conference, Unviersity of Washington, Bothel University of California, Los Angeles
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Indiana State University, Terre Haute
EcoMetropolis Conference, New York University in Manhattan
Grand Arts, Kansas City
Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
University of Colorado, Denver
American University, Washington, DC
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Pratt College of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s MD
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Gallatin School, New York University, New York, NY
University of Washington, Bothell, WA
College Art Association
Cabaret Voltaire, Poughkeepsie, NY
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The New School, New York, NY
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Minneapolis College of Art, Minneapolis, WI

SELECTED CATALOGUES AND ARTICLES

"Take Care: The Art, Science, and Bioethics of Motherhood", Nashville Cultural Arts Project

"Transgenesis: from past to last beginnings", in Elena Giulia Rossi [ed.], Eduardo Kac: Move 36, Filigranes Éditions,Paris, 2005 (French, English)

"Transgénesis: Desde los primeros a los ultimos comienzos", in Eduardo Kac: Obras Vivas y en Red, Fotografías y Otros Trabajos [Eduardo 
Kac: Online and Living Works, Photographs and ther pieces], catalogue of exhibition curated by Graciela Taquini (Buenos Aires: Espacio Fundación 
Telefónica, 2006)

E. Gomart [ed.], Genesis: life at the end of the information age, Utrecht, Centraal Museum, 2007

"TransGenèse : nouvelles origines", Conte, Richard and Marion Laval-Jeantet (eds.). Du sacré dans l'art actuel ? (Paris: Éditions 
Klincksieck, 2008), pp. 129-134. (French)

"Transgénesis: Desde los primeros a los últimos comienzos", in: Andrés Burbano [ed.] Eduardo Kac: El creador de seres imposibles 
[Eduardo Kac: Creator of Impossible Beings] Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia and Brumaria, Madrid, 2009). FORTHCOMING

"From the Fat of the Land,” Grand Arts, Kansas City, 2007“TODT After Next,” Fleisher/Ollman /Gallery, 2007

“The Search for an Eco-Friendly Publishing Strategy,” The Art Book, August, 2007

“Laura Battle. In Pursuit of Enantiodromia” 2007

“Forum: Eco-tistical Art,” College Art Journal. Summer, 2006

“Transgenesis: From Past to Last Beginnings,” Eduardo Kac, Espacio: Fundacion Telefonica, 2006

“Constructing and Demolishing: Manual to Settle Sediments” – an eighteen page artist/writer collaboration with Marco Maggi, College Art Journal, Fall, 2003 Mary Anne Davis: Sculpture, Painting, Procelain, 2005. Mark McDonald, 2005.

“An Eco Art Manifesto”, co-author Skip Schuckmann Landscape and Art, Fall 2003
Reviews and feature articles in Tema Celeste Art Journal: Anish Kapoor, Janine Antoni, Not Vital, James Turrell, Gary Hume, Donica Phelps, Donald Lipski, Rirkrit Tiravani

“Emergences: Raquel Rabinovich,” 2002.

"Yang Ming-Dye:Leaf by Leaf," Watermark Cargo Gallery, October, 1999

"Marco Maggi: Tectonics", 123 Watts Gallery, January, 1998

"William Schade: Art in Pursuit of a Smile". The State University of New York at Albany, Spring, 1999.

"The Artist, The Institution, The State", Rockefeller Foundation, Next Generation Leadership Fellowship Program on-line magazine, February, 1999."The Artist, The Institution, The State", FYI, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Fall, 1998, Vol. 14. No.3

"The Studio Potential of the University Art Gallery", College Art Journal, April, 1999

"The Reincarnation of St. Orlan", essay in Image Magazine, Helsinki. September, 1995.

SELECTED CONSULTANCIES

Arizona State University: SMALLab, 2008

Queens Museum of Art, Exhibition "Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 19950s - 1980s," April, 1999.

Consultant on interdisciplinary education at the University of Colorado in Denver, 2004.

Being Discovered: The Spanish Conquest from the Amer-Indian Point of View: Alejandro Mario Yllanes 1992. Gallery guide

Sixties Graphics: Culture and Counter-Culture, 1991. Gallery guide.

Censored in 1962. Celebrated in 1991. Eli Bielutin and the New Russian Avant-Garde, 1991. Exhibition catalogue.

Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art, 1990. Contributors: Donna Gustafson, Gilber incent, Kendall Taylor, Nan A. Rothschild. Published by Moyer Bell and distributed by Rizzoli Publishers. Toured to New York Historical Society

A Connoisseur’s Quest: Integrating New Discoveries into the Annals of Art HIstory, 1990. Gallery guide with numerous contributors.

Buckminster Fuller: Harmonizing Nature, Humanity, and Technology, 1990. Catalogue took the form of an issue of the magazine UpRiver/DownRiver. Toured to the Bass Museum.

Lo and Behold: Visionary Art in the Post-Modern Era, 1990. Exhibition brochure.

Isabel Bishop. Essay, "Chasing the Shadows of the Times: The Drawings of Isabel Bishop and her Colleagues", 1989. Co-authors Helen Yglesias and John Russell. Published by Chameleon Books of Rizzoli International Publishers. Toured to Arkansas Arts Center.

My American Folk, 1989. Author: Howard Rose. Published by McPherson and Company.

The Complete Graphic Legacy of Fernand Leger, 1989. Author: Daniel Robbins.

Process and Product: The Making of Eight Contemporary Masterworks, 1988. Co-author Donald Kuspit. Winner of 1988 American Association of Museums Design Award.

British Pop Prints, 1987. Exhibition catalogue. Toured to Kanazawa College, Japan.

Pre-Modern Art of Vienna: 1848-1898, 1987. Co-editor Leon Botstein. Contributors: Carl E. Schorske, John W. Boyer, Anton Pelinka, Wolfgang Greisenegger, Dietmar Goltschnigg, Jan E. Adlmann, Leon Botstein, Alessandra Comini, Erika Esau. Hard and soft-cover book published by Wayne State University Press. Toured to IBM Gallery, New York and Hope College, Michigan.

The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, 1985. Co- authors Donald Kuspit and Phyllis Tuchman. Exhibition catalogue.

Thomas Hart Benton: Chronicler of America’s Folk Heritage, 1984. Co-authors Matthew Baigell, Archie Green, Alan Buechner. Exhibition catalogue. Toured to Bucknell University, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum.

LandMarks: New Site Proposals by 22 Pioneers of Environmental Art, 1984. Authors: Lawrence Alloway, Erik Kiveat, Daniel Simberloff, Shelley Rice. Toured to Cranbrook Academy.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Artist as Photographer, 1983. Authors: Tom Wolf, Franklin Riehlman, Bruce Weber. Co-published with the Norton Gallery. Curators: Tom Wolf and Franklin Reihlman, 1983. Toured to Norton Gallery.

The Rebounding Surface: A Study of Reflection, 1982. Exhibition catalogue.

Can You Spare a Dime? Art of the WPA Era, 1981. Authors: Karel Yasko, John Malsberger, Mary Ryan. Philip Johnson Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College

Art in Pursuit of a Smile, 1981. Exhibition catalogue Philip Johnson Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College

An Enrichment of American Culture: Russian Emigres/American Immigres, 1981. Authors: Arvids Ziedonis, Virko Baley, George Kline, John Bowlt, Gennady Smakov. Exhibition catalogue. Philip Johnson Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College

Women Look at Women: Feminist Art for the 80s, 1981.Co-author, Arlene Raven. Exhibition catalogue. Philip Johnson Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College

BOOKS PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EXHIBITIONS I ORGANIZED BUT DID NOT CURATE:

The Odyssey in Ancient Art: An Epic in Word and Image, 1992. Authors: Diana Buitron, Beth Cohen, Norman Austin, George Dimock, Thomas Gould, William Mullen,Barry Powell, Michael Simpson. Exhibition catalogue/book. Curators: Diana Buitron and Beth Cohen

The Transparent Thread: Asian Philosopy in Recent American Art, 1990.Authors, Geri de Paoli and Gail Gelburd. Hard and soft cover books published by Penn State Press. Curators: Geri de Paoli and Gail Gelburd. Toured to Hofstra University, Salina Art Center, University of Houston, Crocker Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum

Sequence and (CON)Sequence: (SUB)Version of Photography in the 80S, 1989. Authors: Julia Ballerini, Lori Zippay and William S. Wilson. Hard and soft cover books published by Aperture Press. Curator: Julia Ballerini

The Arts at Black Mountain College, 1987. Author: Mary Emma Harris. Hard and soft cover books published by MIT Press. Curator: Mary Emma Harris. Toured to Grey Gallery, New York University and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Charmed Places: Hudson River Artists and Their Houses, Studios and Vistas, 1987. Hard and soft cover books published by Harry N. Abrams. Authors, Sandra Phillips, James Marston Fitch, Albert Fein, Donnelson Hoopes, William B. Rhoads. Curator: Sandra Phillips. Toured to the Hudson River Museum and the Albany Institute

Archipenko: Drawings, Reliefs, and Constructions, 1986. Author, Joan Marter.

Herakles: Passage of the Hero Through 1000 Years of Classical Art 1986. Author Jamie Uhlenbrock. Book published by Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher. Curator: Jamie Uhlenbrock

The Graphic Legacy of Paul Klee, 1986. Author, Jim Jordan. Exhibition catalogue. Curator: Jim Jordan

Neo-Neo-Classicism, 1986. Curator: Deborah Drier

Byrdcliffe: Life by Design. Woodstock’s Original Craft Arts Colony, 1985. Co-curated with Robert Edwards. Toured to the Albany Institute of Art and Design and the Delaware Art Museum. Exhibition catalogue.

In Search of the Picturesque: Nineteenth Century Images of Industry Along the Hudson, 1983. Author, Kenneth Maddox. Exhibition catalogue. Curator: Kenneth Maddox. Toured to the Hudson River Museum and the Albany Institute of History and Art.

Ornament and Glory: Theme and Theory in the Works of Karl Knaths,1982. Authors Jim Young, Jean Young, Judith Rothschild. Exhibition catalogue. Curators: Jim and Jean Young

OTHER EXHIBITIONS CURATED AT BARD COLLEGE (Partial Listing)

Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit. The Alaskan Eskimo, The Greenlandic Eskimo, The History of Arctic Photography, 1986

Alice Neel: Premiering Works From the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, 1984. Toured to Grimaldas Gallery, Boston

Art as Social Conscience, 1984

Painter-Photographers : THE 1930s, The 35MM Camera, 1983. Toured to the Norton Gallery

Interpretations of Reality: Photographs of the North American Indian, 1870-1930, 1982. Toured to Muhlenberg College.

Out of the OOO Cloud: Artists Salute the Return of Haley’s Comet, 1982. Co-curated with Aymon deSalles. Toured to Light Gallery, New York

CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE (Partial listing)

Can You Spare a Dime? Art of the WPA Era, 1981

Art in Pursuit of a Smile, 1981

Women Look at Women: Feminist Art for the 80S, 1981

Vito Acconci:: The Artist is the Anthropologist of His Own Universe, 1980

The Renaissance: Enduring Splendor, 1980

Masks: Revelations and Disguises, 1980

Radical Realism, 1980